corporate team building programs
Outdoor Insights Newsletter-Spring/Summer 06
The end of year holiday season gives us all chance to stop and reflect on the year. For Outdoor Insights it has been another busy, varied and exciting time with lots of new and different challenges! Of the many different programs we have run, some of the highlights have included:-
Chanel
Scope: Having worked with the staff of Chanel over many
years the challenge this year was to design a program with new
activities for their senior staff, that could also accommodate a wide
range of ages and physical abilities!
The program focus was very much on 'team bonding' and not trying to instil skills or content over the two days and was designed to allow the staff to get to know each other at a deeper level by doing a variety of activities where everyone has a chance to excel.
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| Checking out the local waterfalls on route! |
The first day was a non-competitive car rally or "observation run" through the Southern Highlands. A route was set
through the most picturesque areas with each car of four participants
needing to visit various lookouts, wineries, local silly icons like the "Big Potato", waterfalls, retail stores, pottery shops to collect
information, famous sporting sites, cemeteries and other mad places!
Wine tasting and a pleasant meal with the slide show of the best shots concluded a great day!
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| Chanel staff at Bradman Oval |
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| Hugging the Big Potato! |
The second day moved to Kangaroo Valley to give participants an opportunity to make up their own teams, to try a range of activities from "mild to wild". These included Canoeing, Horse Riding, Active Meditation, Mountain Bike Riding, Wild Flower Bushwalk and Abseiling. The day finished with the whole group together and drumming workshop.
And the client's view...........
"The written and verbal feedback that I have
received over the last few days has been extraordinary! Everyone
thoroughly enjoyed the two days but more importantly I think we have
made a great start on achieving our objective of having everyone start
to appreciate other team members strengths and realising that we are
only as good as the total team !"
David Blakeley
Managing Director
CHANEL Australia & New Zealand
NCS- Johnson & Johnson
Scope: We were asked to
design a team building program for 40 staff from the Networking
& Computing Services Division of Johnson & Johnson, which would
provide an opportunity for the participants to work together in a very different team environment, include a range of challenging individual and team actvities and an overnight camping in a remote location.
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| Canoeing on the Kangaroo River |
The program commenced with a Canoeing trip starting on the Kangaroo River then down onto Lake Yarrunga. The journey was set up as "Team Challenge" scenario with four teams competing against each other by finding checkpoints and completing various tasks spread out along the route.
The search and retrieval of items along the route gave relevance for the trip and allowed the required dynamics to be introduced by placing vial equipment and activities in strategic positions! The day ended at the overnight campsite with welcoming cool drinks, great food (cooked by the participants) and a warm sleeping bag!
After a breakast BBQ, the group was split into three different teams to undertake a round robin of 'high energy" activities (Abseiling, High & Low wires) that focussed on trust, goal setting and personal comfort zones. The program concluded with a short canoe paddle back to cars and a much needed cool swim in the lake!
Pharmacy Succession Network
Scope: After running a very successful program earlier in the year with this group using the Team Management Systems (TMS)-Individual Profile, the challenge was to provide an engaging mix of theory and practical team activities to keep the team development progressing!
The
program was based at the Westpac Conference Centre at Ingleside and
successfully 'dove-tailed' some fun and demanding team activities
with TMS Risk Orientation Model- QO2.The QO2 instrument is a measure of the energy people put into either seeing the opportunities or seeing the obstacles. It taps into the fifth dimension of the human psyche and is relatively independent of the four common scales used to measure work preferences (TMP). As such it can give respondents valuable information about the way they are likely to approach decision making, change, conflict and just about any situation faced at work.
To conclude this full day, Outdoor Insights's Managing Director-Bob Killip, presented his Everest Keynote Talk on his successful return trip to climb Mount Everest earlier in the year. Sharing the lessons he learnt of the elements required to summit and then return safetly and how these could be related to the work place.
Golden Circle
Scope: As an organisation Golden
Circle has gone through rapid change in the last five years. To prepare
members of the Sales and Marketing team for a two day of business
planning session Outdoor Insights was asked to design a one-day program
to encourage effective team behaviours and to work as 'one team'!
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| Praying for rain? No just the power of innovation! |
Based at the excellent Dooralong Valley Resort, the
program used the extensive outdoor areas of the venue to run a series
of large and small team experiential activities that highlighted:-
* The need for change and innovation.
* An understanding of the current team dynamics
* An introduction to a team problem-solving model.
As part of the morning session we also included the "Team Detective"- a short diagnostic tool, used to help participants identify what stage their team is at and to highlight how individuals may have differing perceptions of how the team is performing!
* The need for change and innovation.
* An understanding of the current team dynamics
* An introduction to a team problem-solving model.
As part of the morning session we also included the "Team Detective"- a short diagnostic tool, used to help participants identify what stage their team is at and to highlight how individuals may have differing perceptions of how the team is performing!
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| Putting the plan into action! |
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| Brainstorming some ideas on the Decontamination Unit! |
Afternoon sessions involved challenging problem solving on the 'Decontamination Unit' activity and a look at goal setting, trust and commitment with the 'Wild Woosey'.
The full and successful day concluded with the whole group on 'The Star' a great activity for highlighting the need to avoid the "silo mentality" in an organisation!
"The program certainly gave us what we were looking for in so much as we had no one team, but a lot of different teams."
"I believe all facets of the course worked extremely well in allowing us to determine our next steps in our journey to success!"
"I believe all facets of the course worked extremely well in allowing us to determine our next steps in our journey to success!"
Dave Harmer
National Sales Training & Development Manager
Golden Circle Limited
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